Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro

For the average Japanese high school student, walking to school can be a chore, but for first-year Chio Miyamo, it's always an adventure. Constantly running late due to her long night sessions playing video games, she is forced to come up with new routes to make it to Samejima Private Academy on time.

On her many bizarre journeys to school, Chio contends with obstacles like street-blocking detours, overzealous kabaddi players, and befuddled motorcycle gang leaders. But these minor hindrances are no match for the special ops training that Chio, AKA the legendary assassin "Bloody Butterfly," has received from her extensive gaming obsession. Together with her best friends Manana Nonomura and Yuki Hosokawa, Chio will do whatever it takes to avoid her school's harsh penalties for tardiness.

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Miyamo, Chio Main

Oozora, Naomi Japanese

Nonomura, Manana Main

Omigawa, Chiaki Japanese

Andou, Mayuta Supporting

Koyama, Rikiya Japanese

Kushitori, Madoka Supporting

Taichi, You Japanese

Gotou Supporting

Takahashi, Hiroki Japanese

Shinozuka, Momo Supporting

Suzuki, Minori Japanese

Hosokawa, Yuki Supporting

Hondo, Kaede Japanese

Setoyama Supporting

Yukana Japanese

Miyamo, Mother Supporting

Hayamizu, Risa Japanese

Andou, Chiharu Supporting

Aizawa, Saya Japanese

Tamura, Junichirou Producer

Herek, Samantha Assistant Producer

Inagaki, Takayuki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Series Composition, Key Animation

Yamaguchi, Takayuki Sound Director

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Apr 8, 2024

RisupokkeSensei

Recommended

This show is pervy as hell, but it's so funny that I was able to look past the deluge of panty shots and instances where the plot verged off into deviant territory. Chio is a great MC - equal parts daring, cowardly, intelligent, stupid, selfish and compassionate. Basically she's a total wreck, and it's a blast to see where her worst instincts will take her from episode to episode. Along for the ride is her BFF Manana, and they form one of the more endearing and refreshing tandems in anime. They're both delightfully self-interested, and frequently put each other in harms way just for the ... sake of enjoyment, but ultimately they still support other as all good anime friends do. Both VAs do a fantastic job bringing their chemistry to life. Whether they're performing mundane everyday tasks or getting drawn into insane nonsense, it's just fun to spend time with Chio and Manana.
The supporting characters are a true roster of weirdos, and the show does a good job of building on their backstories and entwining them with one another, expanding the strange world of Chio's School Road. The premise of the show is a great hook, and its wacky sensibility made this show truly unpredictable in the best way. Most importantly, this show delivered on laughs.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 31, 2022

albertbrown

Recommended

Chio’s School Road was legitimately one of the best school life, comedy based anime that I’ve seen in the last year alone. The manga itself also holds its own when it comes to keeping up with the slapstick, zany humor and overall funny moments of what it is like to have a great walk towards school.

Supporting characters really sold on the anime as well, from the former bike gang leader who now acts like a subordinate to Chio after being known as the Bloody Butterfly to playing kabbadi with Madoka who is only using it as an excuse to see inside the skirt of Chio’s ... friend Yuki. Most of the interactions that Chio has, along with special little side stories that involve Manana, Momo and Chiori also have the blessing of actually not just making the entire anime about her, since it helps fuel the outside influences that make the trip towards school exciting and also bizarre at the same time.

As said before, the humor and unique attempts at trying parkour really show how much effort and care was being put into making this anime into what it is — a special normal day about what happens when a special normal girl walks from her home to school. If anything, I stand by the fact that this is the best slice of life anime that uses the school life trope to make it more adventurous and never tries to fool the audience into thinking it’s some abstract concept that it hard to understand. Overall, this is honestly one of the best anime I’ve seen in years, and a bonus even goes for the voice acting and bloopers at the end of the series that shows the amount of care and hilarity that goes while they’re trying to show how the series came together even while staying in character. It’s a pretty nice way to end it and it really makes me wish we had another season.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Feb 14, 2021

astralwalnut

Mixed Feelings

I really wish I was giving this a more positive score because I actually really enjoyed this series! The characters were mostly lovely and have fun and creative interactions with each other, and I did really love how they captured the genuinely loving and yet back-stabbing relationship between Manana and Chio. The comedy too was very often successful for me - but the predatory lesbian character just bummed me out completely, and the panty shots are literally all over the place, and the girl with the crush on a teacher who is encouraged to confess her feelings is also a gross situation. I'm also not ... sure what the age gap is with Andou but I'm gonna guess it's a weird and uncomfortable amount considering Chio is just 15. With all that, it just made a series that was supposed to be lighthearted wacky fun a real ew reminder about how sexualization of young girls is somehow supposed to be a turn-on.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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